Improvement in potato-diggers



'dnitd tatea @wat @mire Letters Patent No. 111,656, dated February '7, 1871.

IM PROVEM ENT |`N POTATO-DIGGERS.

The Schedule :referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe sanne.

To all whom't't may concern K Be it known that I, GEORGE C. LOVE, of English Centre, in the county of Lycoming and in the Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand ilse-v llmp'rovements in Potato-Diggers; and do hereby declare that the following is va full, clear, and exact description thereof,- reference being had to Athe ac-v companying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon Vmaking a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the con-- struction and arrangement of a potato-digger,7 as will be hereinafter fully set forth. In order to enable others skilled in the ari? to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to" describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, `which represents a plan View of my machine.

A represents the axle, upon each end of whiclnrevolves a'driving-wheel, B.

On the top of the axle A is secured a circle, G, which forms the lhandle of the machine.

The axle is grooved longitudinally for a certain distance on 'its upper side, and in this groove is placed ay roller or wheel, D,.the journals of which have their hearings Ain a bent bar, a, which passes under the axle,.

and is, by a clevis, lattached ,to the handle E, having at one end the fork G.

Upon vthe inner end of the hub ot' eachV wheel B is a cog-wheel, b, in which work the' catches-'e c, fastened on the ends of the wire bow H. This bow is pivoted on the upper side of the axle A, and the catches at its ends serve as brakes when needed.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and .desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1.-lhe combination of the grooved axle A, wheel B B, circle C, roller D, bar 1a, and fork E G, constructed and operated substantially as shown and described..

v2. In combination with the grooved axle A, wheels B B, circle C, fork E G, and roller d, the bail H, provided with tlie catches ee, operating in thecog-wheels b b, all substantially as set forth.

ln testimonyl that I claimthe foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of May, 1870.

GEORGE C. LOVE.

vWitnesses:V

E. E. CARSON, OLIVER CARSON. 

